nuPatient Stories

I got sadness from Pixar’s Inside Out movie tattooed on me. Why? Because over the years I’ve conditioned myself to not feel sadness or accept sadness as an emotion. Because feeling sadness has caused me such trauma, loss & emptiness. I put up walls and retreat behind them when anything …

I was in a lot of pain. Can’t sit, can’t stand, can’t lie down pain. I also had a list of diagnoses, things most doctors consider individual issues. My gut (literally and figuratively) told me they were symptoms of something larger. Every doctor wanted me to make separate appointments, one …